Evaluating a virtual facilitation workshop with antimicrobial stewardship teams within a cluster randomized stepped-wedge trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASP) often function naturally as facilitators within clinical hospital settings, by working with individuals and teams to reduce unnecessary antibiotics. Within implementation science, facilitation has been studied and evaluated as an implementation strategy that can accelerate and improve fidelity to implementation efforts. This study describes a novel, virtual facilitation strategy developed and served as an intervention within the optimizing perioperative antibiotics for children trial (OPERATIC trial). This paper: (1) describes ASP team's preferences for and use of a facilitation workshop and (2) describes sustained use of facilitation skills throughout the study period.

Methods

Study participants included antimicrobial stew

SUBMITTER: Malone S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11492772 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature